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COR16032 Renaissance Portugal

Overview

Portuguese sacred music of this period inhabits a distinctive sound world that can be seen as a continuation and development of the Spanish style of composers such as Morales and Guerrero, but it is often allied to a tantalizing harmonic richness and colour that is found nowhere else. Its individuality parallels the new and astonishing Manueline architecture in which much of it would have been performed.The SixteenHarry Christophers

'...a performance of deeply searching spirituality, paced intelligently, as is everything by this choir's director, Harry Christophers' The Times